Scott Kominers (@skominers)

2026.06.16 14:32

In the last week, multiple colleagues have expressed concern that generative AI will somehow destroy society's esteem for mathematics and mathematicians. Contrariwise, I conjecture the opposite. I've never seen the level of public fascination with math that we're seeing right now — weekly articles in major outlets; people outside the field teaching themselves arithmetic combinatorics; heck, even the owner of a local café recently asked me to explain the unit distance conjecture. If anything, this seems likely to renew students' excitement, uncover new applications, and open new frontiers — all of which should inure to the benefit of the field and of mathematicians. QED?

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Scott Kominers@skominers

2026.04.17 14:38

True story: I saw this paper hit the arXiv yesterday and thought it looked super interesting because it was the first paper in the Combinatorics section in quite some time to lead with quadratic forms. Pulled up the abstract and of course it's an @axiommathai collab 😄